Posted by Deena Shanker and adapted for this blog, 23 February 2017, 21:00 GMT+11 If you pull out your phone to check Twitter while waiting for the light to change, or read e-mails while brushing your teeth, you might be what the American Psychological Association calls a “constant checker.” And chances are, it’s hurting your mental health. Last week, the APA released a study finding that Americans were experiencing the first statistically significant stress increase in …
Checking Facebook is a daily habit (if not an hourly habit) for most of its users. In December, 66% of Facebook’s 1.86 billion monthly users checked in on an average day. That kind of daily user engagement is unparalleled by similar services like Twitter or LinkedIn. Instagram has quickly caught up with its parent company in terms of its daily user to monthly user ratio. On Facebook’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that …
By my friend KEVAN LEE, collated and curated by John G Dryden in an update. 27 Dec, 2016 My wife just asked my daughter what triangle plus boobs meant; on social media? <3 This actually means love heart so this got me thinking, time to post some acronym meanings up for friends and followers. For years I have been engrossed in the fact that my native industry of advertising uses more acronyms that I can …
With more and more Instagram users inspired to buy clothing, the social network is fast establishing itself as a solid bet for fashion-led brands By Rachel Gee 6 Sep 2016 12:01 am Instagram has claimed fashion brands are most likely to succeed on its platform, with one in three of its 500 million global users having bought an item of clothing they discovered while using the social network. Its latest report claims that an Instagram user interested …
Careers can be divided into 7 ‘clusters’ and not particular professions Jan Owen of the Foundation for Young Australians says employers have to look at capabilities and skills. Once they … Jan Owen of the Foundation for Young Australians says employers have to look at capabilities and skills. Once they identify this it will drive better candidate selection and improve productivity as well as reduce staff turnover. supplied by Lucille Keen Young Australians should not …
